Banged Up Abroad: Crime & Punishment

Billy Hayes, was the subject of 1978 film `Midnight Express', which detailed his arrest for drug smuggling in Turkey and then subsequently broke out of prison. He describes how he truly escaped from a Turkish prison.

Captured by the Iraqi secret police, Tom Lynch and John White were plunged into a world of torture and execution, where they believed every moment would be their last.

Jackie Nichols flees to Japan after her fiance dies in a car accident, in the hope of restarting her life. After meeting a charming drug mule, she gets involved in smuggling, and gets caught, and sentenced to several years in prison.

Caught smuggling 10.5 kilos of heroin, Tim Schrader was sentenced to life in a notorious Thai prison where he became depressed, hooked on drugs and contracted HIV.

When music-loving hippie Michael Morey learned he and his girlfriend were expecting a baby, he agreed to smuggle cocaine from Quito in Ecuador to Spain.

Young backpacker Mark Wedeven wanted the ultimate adventure of crossing from Panama to Colombia overland through the notorious Darien Gap. However, en route, he and his companions were ambushed by murderous paramilitaries.